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Redemption
Pastor Resources · Redemption The musical Hamilton resonates with me more than any piece of art I have ever experienced, primarily because it teems with the most important themes of my life. Engaging these themes of grace, shame, forgiveness, and...
Loss
Pastor Resources · Loss
Marching Around Jericho
Pastor Resources · Marching Around Jericho My spiritually mismatched marriage chronicle began in a dance club in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ya, that’s right! That is where I met my husband. We dated long-distance for more than a year then married quickly. It wasn’t the...
What’s Our Problem?
Pastor Resources · What Kind Of Foundation Following Jesus as never been easy, but some believe it’s becoming even more difficult as Western cultures become increasingly post-Christian. Today, fewer people identify as “Christian,” fewer attend church with any...
Leading the Church
Pastor Resources · Leading In The Church I have been disappointed by how many church leaders avoid having crucial conversations as if they were the bubonic plague. Instead, they believe the innuendos, reasoning, and deductions they’ve never investigated but...
California Beach Revival Brings ‘Beautiful Harvest of Souls’ Together For Worship, Baptism
What Kind of Foundation? Part 1
Pastor Resources · What Kind Of Foundation In times like these, we begin to realize how critical our foundations are. We all strive to value strong foundations all the time, but we all know that we struggle to put down strong foundations. It is often easy to build...
Waiting is More Than a Season
Pastor Resources · Waiting Is More Than A Season By any name—attitude, orientation, choice, habit, discipline, virtue, or practice—learning to wait on the Lord is an essential, transformative, and rewarding dimension of spiritual formation. This perspective is...
Top Tips For Managing Grief Through Self-Care
Pastor Resources · Top Tips For Managing Grief When we lose someone we love, we ask God why it happened. Sometimes, we get the answer we seek. Other times, we have to wait. But regardless of closure, grief hurts, and it hits hard. Here are some ways you can...
God Is Still Writing Your Story—Here are Four Likely Characters
Pastor Resources · God Is Still Writing Your Story You only have to spend a few minutes on Facebook to know we are living in an epidemic of inner emptiness, complete with a cast of characters who escape in all kinds of “isms” or put others down as a path to...
Mastering the “Art” of Church Communications
Pastor Resources · Mastering The Art Of Church Communications To communicate effectively, church leaders need to use precise, carefully chosen messages with accurate and complete details. Words are certainly a key component, but they’re just part of the equation....
Major Impact from a Minor Character
Pastor Resources · Major Impact From A Minor Character Might you ever question whether or not your modest life can make an impact? You’re not alone. Allow me to introduce a man I am quite confident will be a new friend, colleague, and favorite prophet. In your...
A Pastor’s Worst Nightmare
Pastor Resources · A Pastor's Worst Nightmare The first recorded sermon by Jesus is a pastor’s worst nightmare. Halfway through the place erupts violently. The hometown synagogue crowd furiously drives Jesus out of the city “in order to throw him off the cliff”...
Resources from the Humanitarian Disaster Institute
Reopening the Church Guide - We launched brand new manual last Friday: Guide to Reopening Church Services: A Step-by-Step, Biblically-Based and Research-Based Approach to Resuming In-Person Ministries. This 26-page manual can be downloaded...
What Happens In School and After School Can Help End Global Poverty
Pastor Resources · What Happens In School and After School Can Help End Global Poverty As followers of Christ, many of us wrestle with how we, and the congregations we lead, can make the most impact in helping those in need, especially those entrenched in a...
Can We Have The Conversation? Black and White at the Table Together …Just Like Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Pastor Resources · Can We Have The Conversation Yet another pastor confided to me: “I almost feel powerless to do anything about racial justice.... What do I know about racism? I feel like a part of the problem that can never be a part of the solution because...
COVID-19: Considerations for Re-Gathering in Church Buildings
Pastor Resources · Covid - 19 And Returning To Church I have a sister who lives in Vancouver, Washington, and another who resides in Richardson, Texas. Vancouver has few cases of COVID-19. But Dallas County, by comparison, has a lot. Yet, at the moment, Vancouver...
Running Away To Home
Pastor Resources · Running Away TO Home I was about eleven years old when we got the word that my mother, older brother, and I had finally been approved to move into the government housing project. We had been on the waiting list for a long time, and by most...
Why so many pastoral suicides
Pastor Resources · Pastoral Suicide Why are we painfully seeing more suicides in the ministry? Why does it seem like a “taboo” topic to bring up? Why does it seem that people are fearful to tell the truth when it comes to someone taking their own life?...
Longing for Revival During the Pandemic
Pastor Resources · Longing For Revival During The Pandemic Look at the nations and watch — and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. — Habakkuk 1:5 Before COVID-19 struck, life was already...
